Still, they taste a bit of blood

Soul of a grumpy uncle, body of a thirty-something Canadian. Current grad student. Future lighthouse keeper.

[brotherconstant]

18.06.1990 & 18.06.2003 Happy Birthday Jacob Anderson & Bailey Bass!

[7pleiades7]

Blue and White Dish and Blueberries (2016) by Susan Paterson (Canadian, born 1958), oil on masonite, 9 x 12 in, Private Collection

[midnightchapter]

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT — 3.02 “Toledo”

[hateusandseeifwemind-deactivate]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mike Smith (British, b. Liverpool, Merseyside, England, based Addingham, West Yorkshire, England) - Wild Flower Meadow - Upper Wharfedale, 16 Color Reduction Linoprint

[toscrollperchancetomeme]

[gracerings]

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[mofroggery]

delicious in dungeon!

[godforsakenpaladinofnigh]

02

My lovely valentine.

Under your skins, bright red shines

Mold to shape, tender and soft

Warmth and nice or it once was

Darling valentine forgive me please

The sharp knife is all I need

A Pang of pain! Blood runs down

From a hand we held for hours.

Beautiful valentine, my love, I promise

You won’t feel a thing when the wound is stitched

Cause’ your blood will rest in my veins

And your warmth will make me whole again.

My last copy of my zine was sold out last weekend. I figured I wanted to share all of the illustrations and poems I made. I hope you’d like them :)

You can search through them through my tag ‘Devourer of my Flesh’.

[i-know-the-enddc]

what I fucking love is how tvl was written in the 80s and lestat is constantly sayinf shit like “as the kids say 🤪 that’s so rad!!” or whatever, and to me, reader of the vampire lestat in this modern age, that does NOT register the way anne rice intended it.

like it is supposed to feel jarring and insane. it is supposed to feel like lestat has been violently submerged in modern young people trends and culture and is now repeating all the new words he learned like a beautiful fresh baby. but because the book is from 1985, all I think is oh interesting huh I didn’t know that slang term even originated in the 80s how vintage how retro how lestat wow he’s so embarrassing aw aw so cute.

but amc in all their incredible genius decided that honoring anne rice’s original vision of writing an extremely modern and weird book that fully embodied the era it was written in was more important then bringing back the 80s nostalgia thing that streaming services love and it’s incredible to me. now I get to listen to lestat say shit like “labubu FOMO cosplay reddit discord Gen Z more like gen SNOOZE 🤪🤪🤪 safe space pronouns donald trump labubu tiktok dance 🕺🏻” and suddenly I understand what it felt like to be a young anne rice reader in 1985. God…. I understand.

[r04ches]

am i even mentally ill or am i just living in some kind of infinite torture chamber that would make anyone like this

[minyard-05]

love my hockey mutuals. occasionally poetry snippets or kafka quotes will cross my dash tagged "san jose sharks" and i have to think well i didn't watch it so who am i to judge. maybe franz kafka did write that about the san jose sharks

[keibay]

Piece by Piece ....

[commissions]

[samlickereightyone]

when the media has homophobia that has aged into genuine queer subtext

[probuccalfat]

i cannot emphasize enough how important it is that you should ideally give birth in a fully equipped and staffed medical facility or if you insist on giving birth through an alternative method you should be within minutes of a hospital and i mean under 5 minutes if you’d like me to be really fucking frank

[probuccalfat]

like i can get on board with so much feminist theory and stuff, truly, and i do acknowledge that obstetrics and gynaecology as a field holds blind spots that are egregious (e.g. infant and maternal mortality in the black community) but there is no empowerment in risky birthing practices that our foremothers, and i’m not mincing words, often suffered through. birthing is natural, but it is not “easy” or even “innate”, it is best practiced guided and witnessed by those that know what to do in an emergency. you are not reconnecting to any innate feminine nature by practicing dangerous birthing practices—you are recreating a time when the bodies and lives of women barely mattered and it was expected that death would/could occur at insane and tragic rates.

[probuccalfat]

this is a hill i will spend the rest of my days fighting on because while i am not interested in birthing children myself, i have an incredible passion and interest in the field of labour and delivery. it’s been one of my greatest joys to play even a small part in delivering neonates. i do not want anyone to risk their babies over a deeply, deeply misguided idea of free birth being “the natural way” when natural is not always synonymous with the safest way.

[anarchohellenism]

So many people think it's either midwife or doctor. It's not. Have your midwife or doula in the hospital room with you, I promise the doctors don't give a shit. Hell, you can have her do the delivery itself and just have the doctors there as emergency backup! But for the love of your baby, go to the fucking hospital.

[probuccalfat]

yup. a lot of hospitals are willing to work with you to realize your birthing plan as much as they can within safe limits and parameters. my hospital is closely and highly allied with midwives all up and down the coast, with the explicit instruction to call the midwife when we know a labouring patient is about to deliver so we can respect their plan. genuinely, you can have almost any kind of birth you want—just make sure that there are qualified professionals in attendance, and it’s not just midwives or OBGYNS you need. you have no idea when you’ll need a respiratory therapist on call, you have no idea when you will need a blood transfusion within minutes or risk certain death, L&D nurses do not have the same training as NICU nurses if a baby declines rapidly. it’s a literal thousand things that can go wrong and you should be in the best place for them to go wrong.

[beefcakekinard]

found at the bottom of buck's closet as he's packing up the loft: an old, worn-soft tank top.

pushed to the back of a drawer until out of sight is out of mind: a pair of grey sweats. the cuffs drag along the floor when tommy tries to wear them.

lost and forgotten among stacks of cardboard boxes: a pair of plain black socks. found again, washed, folded together, and set aside.

wadded up into a damp ball in the pocket of buck's dress slacks: a simple white pocket square, older than buck's own.

stolen from buck's closet, stolen back, stolen again, stolen back, stolen again: a fluffy pink cardigan.

tossed together in a box and donated: half a closet's worth of henleys, tees, and hoodies.

set on one of a matching set of nightstands:

a pair of drugstore reading glasses.

a dog-eared copy of master and commander.

a wooden bowl holding a watch, a silver bracelet, and one of two golden bands.